Making a custom probe & sensor

The other day I was trying to create a custom probe/sensor for a probe for our linux machines.

The only example I could find was to read a text file and make a ci based on that. That was not what I wanted.

I was specifically asking a program to tell me about its facts and I wanted to relate those details to the currently identified CI.

I couldn’t remember how to do this;

Thankfully Rob G. pointed me in the right direction.

• Created Probe to run the command sudo `which factor` -pj

• Created Sensor to respond to the probe

• Opened the Classifiers, and added the Probe to the Linux one

• Created a Test Discovery schedule so I could test the Probe & Sensor

Notes;

• result.output is going to be string output as its what's on the shell that is returned. If it's an object, you gotta parse it.

• var serverGR = this.getCmdbRecord(); is the way I used to get the currently identified CI.